So I know lots of folks use different options to get some dirt on with the Jerry leads. I use a few different methods but one I keep gravitating to is the Tube-MXR combo. I also use my OD-2 a lot as well but I can't get over the Tube MXR combo. Anyone else have any input on the combos they use? Here's a good example of the combo tone I am referring to.

At 5:49 I fumble but turned on the Tube Screamer. At 6:15 I added the MXR... Yet another Dear Prudence

i have longed believed that Jerry on occasion would reach in the rack and toggle the footswitch of the Mutron III to it's bypassed state and use the Overdrive function of that pedal. I believe i have footage of him doing this for a couple songs, but those examples are not any combo use. i hope to find some of that. that said, i do use the mutron bypassed with the dist+ for some searing sustainy tones. i implore those with the Mu3 to try it out.

peace,waldo

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That's some fantastic playing...band sounds great also. I really don't go hardcore for the Jerry tone, although I love it, but I've been using the combo of Tubescreamer and MXR Dist+ for a while now, i love it.

Interesting topic. at our practice last night i was mixing my tubescreamer with Zendrive. Here is Jack Straw. i have the tubescreamer on the whole song. at 3:10 i crank up the volume on the guitar and at about 3:12 kick in the zendrive. i was playing a 71 les paul goldtop with P-90s into a matchless chieftan. Not really going for Jerry tone just my own. Oh yeah i have played with these guys twice.

1960strat wrote:Interesting topic. at our practice last night i was mixing my tubescreamer with Zendrive. Here is Jack Straw. i have the tubescreamer on the whole song. at 3:10 i crank up the volume on the guitar and at about 3:12 kick in the zendrive. i was playing a 71 les paul goldtop with P-90s into a matchless chieftan. Not really going for Jerry tone just my own. Oh yeah i have played with these guys twice.

at the very beginning of this hampton 87 ship of fools video is where he, i believe, is flipping the mutron in bypass(footswitch) and probably nudges the volume. they played feel like a stranger earlier at the end of the first set with no other effect being used up to this point. so the envelope was on and needed to be switched to bypass, thus why i make the assumption. after he is seen at the beginning of the video at the rack he turns around and then he flips the OBEL on, and begins to play the beginning intro with the OBEL on, maybe a bar into it he flips the OBEL off. in the video at 2 seconds in he flips the OBEL on and starts ship of fools, then at about 8 seconds in he flips the OBEL off. those brief seconds are a clue because the sound is clean and is neither distortion , nor delay nor phase or envelope.

Hampton 87 video

to drive this little clue home listen to the soundboard of the very same ship of fools at the archive. at about 7 seconds in you can hear him at the same note as the video flipping the OBEL off and because of the guitars volume level, there is not all that much difference between the 2. very clean, again no distortion, phase, delay or envelope heard with the OBEL on.

but then when he hits the solo watch 3:27 (and listen 3:30) to him when he flips the OBEL back on in the video WITHOUT adding any other effect at the footswitches. he does turn the guitars volume up. we already knew he could throw the mc2300 into clipping with just the guitars volume pushed. but with the mutron bypassed overdrive, he is really slamming it into controlled sustained feedback. he can do the same thing with the dist+ or other OD/dist's used, but they have more grit to them then this sound does.

now go back and pay attention to the end outro jam(Vid 7:09 Aud 7:12). the OBEL is off and he doesn't flip it on, he stays clean and then moves just the volume to achieve that pushed heavy tone we already knew he could get by clipping the mac. the tones are very similiar, but the solo is clearly,imo, the mutron III bypassed overdrive on top of that pushed heavy tone.

peace,waldo

Disclaimer: I only make, modify or build things for those that seek what i may be able to provide.

I use a Dist + with silicon diodes. I keep the dist level all the way down and the volume at about 4 o'clock. I keep this on all the time. It is mostly a clean sound with a touch of bite and grit. Very Jerry like. I then use a Analogman Silver mod Tube Screamer for certain things. I just built an MXR Dist+ from General Guitar Gadgets and am trying that in place of the tubescreamer. I just don't hear Jerry's tone in it though? I think Jerry's Dist + was modded???? Something is definetely different.

waldo041 wrote:at the very beginning of this hampton 87 ship of fools video is where he, i believe, is flipping the mutron in bypass(footswitch) and probably nudges the volume. they played feel like a stranger earlier at the end of the first set with no other effect being used up to this point. so the envelope was on and needed to be switched to bypass, thus why i make the assumption. after he is seen at the beginning of the video at the rack he turns around and then he flips the OBEL on, and begins to play the beginning intro with the OBEL on, maybe a bar into it he flips the OBEL off. in the video at 2 seconds in he flips the OBEL on and starts ship of fools, then at about 8 seconds in he flips the OBEL off. those brief seconds are a clue because the sound is clean and is neither distortion , nor delay nor phase or envelope.

to drive this little clue home listen to the soundboard of the very same ship of fools at the archive. at about 7 seconds in you can hear him at the same note as the video flipping the OBEL off and because of the guitars volume level, there is not all that much difference between the 2. very clean, again no distortion, phase, delay or envelope heard with the OBEL on.

but then when he hits the solo watch 3:27 (and listen 3:30) to him when he flips the OBEL back on in the video WITHOUT adding any other effect at the footswitches. he does turn the guitars volume up. we already knew he could throw the mc2300 into clipping with just the guitars volume pushed. but with the mutron bypassed overdrive, he is really slamming it into controlled sustained feedback. he can do the same thing with the dist+ or other OD/dist's used, but they have more grit to them then this sound does.

now go back and pay attention to the end outro jam(Vid 7:09 Aud 7:12). the OBEL is off and he doesn't flip it on, he stays clean and then moves just the volume to achieve that pushed heavy tone we already knew he could get by clipping the mac. the tones are very similiar, but the solo is clearly,imo, the mutron III bypassed overdrive on top of that pushed heavy tone.

peace,waldo

That's a gorgeous bluesy overdrive lead from the Mutron III. Perfect sound for that song. Does the Q-tron come with that same type of bypass\overdrive circuit?